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Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, Chief Minister of Sierra Leone, conducted an on-the-spot visit to the Sewa Grounds Market project in Central Freetown today to assess its progress. This ambitious project, spearheaded by the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), aims to create a modern trading space capable of accommodating over 6,000 traders and customers daily. The market’s completion is anticipated to significantly reduce street trading in Freetown. NASSIT’s Director General, Mohamed Fuaad Daboh, assured the Chief Minister that the facility is over 95 percent complete and is expected to be ready for commissioning by August this year. “This facility includes a crèche for nursing mothers, a control room for CCTV cameras, offices for commercial banks, and a dedicated office for the Freetown City Council (FCC) to collect market dues. Additionally, it features a 100,000-liter water tank and 151 toilets to enhance sanitation within the market,” Daboh detailed. He also...

By Priyanka Pandey   Published on : 17:30 PST, Jun 22, 2024  FOLLOW  In 1983, Barack Obama began his relationship with Genevieve Cook when he met her at a Christmas party in New York's East Village. David Maraniss, in an adaptation of his Obama biography, uncovered the unseen tale of the ex-couple's time together in an article for Vanity Fair . The most talked-about portions ofBarack Obama: The Storywere the diary entries from one of Obama's lovers during his early 1980s New York days. In his piece, Maraniss quoted from Cook's notes, shedding light on Obama's romance with her and the separation that followed. Obama's senior by three years, Cook was 25 years old when she met him. According to Maraniss, she represented 'the deepest romantic relationship of his young life.' She smoked Lucky Strikes and unfiltered Camels, according to him, and her favorite beverages were Baileys Irish Cream and Punt e Mes, an Italian vermouth that she sometimes...

Alhaji U Njai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2023: Sierra Leone suffers from the convergence of two wicked environmental problems, one not our doing and the other, the result of our reckless environmental stewardship. Climate change is not our doing in Sierra Leone; the shifts in climate and rainfall patterns definitely points to Climate change for which the industrialized nations bear the moral responsibility. Sierra Leone’s contribution to global carbon emissions is negligible and infinitesimal when compared to even a city like New York in the US. Hence, climate change represent one of the greatest environmental injustices for our generation. The perennial floodings, risk of landslides, and disasters are largely the result of our irresponsible and unregulated environmental stewardship. Massive deforestation, unplanned and unregulated building constructions on hill slopes, creating heavy run off and mass flow down hill with limited land cover barrier to aid i...

Senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection(MISTRA), Na’eem Jeenah, says that yesterday’s surprise attack by Hamas on Israel was something that should have been expected. This after the militant group launched a wave of rocket attacks and sent fighters into Israel in the biggest escalation in decades. The violence continued in the evening with Tel Aviv and other central Israeli cities hit by a new barrage of rockets with more than 300 Israelis reportedly dead. Jeenah says the attack was a response to decades of repression. “I think the fact of such a response from the Palestinian side to almost eight decades of occupation, and oppression is something that we should all have expected. When it might happen and exactly how, of course, was the surprise yesterday. But after 75- years of living under military rule, military occupation, colonialism and apartheid what we saw yesterday I think, that’s why we saw the kind of global Palestinian jubilation in...

#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria: Nigerian Youth, Bashir Abubakar Arrested In Kano For Advertising T-shirts Supporting Nationwide Protests The arrest is reportedly related to Abubakar's advertisement of T-shirts supporting the upcoming nationwide protests against economic hardship. The Department of State Services (DSS) in Nigeria has been accused of arresting an individual named Bashir Abubakar in Kano. The arrest is reportedly related to Abubakar's advertisement of T-shirts supporting the upcoming nationwide protests against economic hardship. However, the DSS spokesperson, Dr Peter Afunanya, denied the allegation when contacted by SaharaReporters on Sunday. "It is not true. It is not true,” he said in a message sent to our reporter. #RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore, has demanded the immediate release of Abubakar in a message on his X (formerly Twitter) account. “The lawless @OfficialDSSNG has begun inciting the public to riot even before the D-Day, early th...

Soldiers carry the coffin of former Ukrainian nationalist lawmaker Iryna Farion during a funeral ceremony in Lviv, Ukraine, Monday, July 22, 2024. Farion, who often made outspoken statements defending the Ukrainian language was shot by a gunman in her home city of Lviv. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys) The Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine -- Several thousand mourners attended the funeral Monday in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a former lawmaker best known for her campaign to promote the Ukrainian language who was fatally shot in the street by an unknown assailant. Iryna Farion, 60, was shot on Friday and later died from her wounds in a hospital. A manhunt is currently underway for her attacker, who fled the scene. Ukrainian officials said an investigation is being carried out and that the attack is being treated as an assassination. Her daughter Sofia Semchyshyn commented about her killing. “Killed, they killed her near her house during the day, on a sunny day." Farion ser...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to have switched his nickname for the vice president from " Laffin' Kamala " to "Lyin' Kamala " in two Truth Social posts on Monday evening. Known for giving his political opponents nicknames, the escalation in tone coincides with Harris emerging as his most likely Democratic rival, replacing president Joe Biden , who announced he would not seek reelection on Sunday. The previous nickname for Harris arose earlier in July, in relation to her well-known belly laugh, which has been a feature of several viral clips . " Lyin' Kamala Harris , the Biden appointed "Border Czar" who never visited the Border, and whose incompetence gave us the WORST and MOST DANGEROUS Border anywhere in the World, has absolutely terrible pole [sic] numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP! Be careful what you wish for, Democrats ??? MAGA2024," Trump wrote. However, Ha...